What is Cost Center and Activity type

Can any one make me understand Conseptually, what is Cost Center and Activity Type

<b>Cost Center:</b>A cost centers is an organizational unit within a controlling area that represents a clearly delimited area of responsibility where costs are monitored against a budget.
Cost centers represent areas of responsibility (management areas) that generate and influence costs.
Cost centers are the locations at which the costs are incurred
<b>Activity types</b> describe activities produced by a cost center. They are measured in units of time or quantity. Activity quantities are valuated using a price.
For example: the maintenance department provides maintenance service at a labor hourly rate of SAR 2000 or USD 1000.
When the activities produced by a cost center are used by other cost centers, orders or projects, this means that the resources of the sending cost center are being used by the receiver objects.
By recording the planned and actual quantities consumed, you reallocate cost incurred on the sender into the receivers.
Activity Types can be grouped to facilitate reporting and cost allocation.
Hope it clears your basic doubt on Cost center and Activity type
Assign points if helpful.
Regards,
NareN.

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Is it possible to have PM Order confirmation (IW41) using Cost Center and Activity type from Personnel instead of default from Work Center? If it is, can it be done with some configuration or user exit? Please advise. Thank you.
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Hi friend,
Order confirmation will be done for order operations.While doing confirmation we post the actual work done by the repective work center and respective activity type assigned to the same workcenter.
But these activity types are assigned to cost center for cost calculation.confirming the respective operation in maintenance order through workcenters gives the report of planned work and actual work done by the respective workcenter.
We cannot confirm the operation using costcenter and activity type directly through transaction IW41.
If you want to develop new confirmation screen and making confirmation of the respective order operation with only costcenter and activity type fields, you can do it .
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Edited by: Pardhreddyc on May 17, 2011 12:45 PM

Cost center and activity type

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how can I link a cost center to an activity type ?
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Hi..
You can defined a activity type to a cost centre category not a particular cost centre.
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you can defined it in KL01 activity master creation.
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Dude
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Hi Roberto,
Use - BAPI_ACTIVITYTYPE_GETPRICES.
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I got to know...
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Hi Eduardo,
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note that
When are default values used from the employee master record?
The default values are only used for new CATS records, not for changing,
not for copying. If you also want to use the default values changing,
not for copying. If you also want to use the default values from the
employee master record when changing and copying from the work list, you
can use SAP enhancement CATS0002.
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choose 'Return'.
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proposed, if in Customizing of the data entry profile, you selected the
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0315 ('Time Sheet Defaults'), if in Customizing of the data entry
profile you selected the 'Cost center' field (or the 'Activity type'
field).
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I already created Source Structure and assigned to my Setllement profile (so I assigned Allocation Structure AND Source Structure).
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Secondary Cost Element Configuration for Plant Maintenance Order
http://scn.sap.com/thread/3488730
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Currently GL account and Cost Center is automatically determined based on OBYC configuration.
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Hi,
In delivery under tab GOODS MOVEMENT DATA
After valuation type column COST CENTER & G/L Account column available
Now with the help of FI consultant make it change mode so user can maintain also I observe that if delivery created without reference to order then that fields are in change mode means user cn maintain data for this but if with reference to order it is disable mode
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